Sunday, January 18, 2015

"Paris attacks: Jean-Marie Le Pen says French terror attacks were work of Western intelligence":

"The Charlie Hebdo massacre may have been the work of an “intelligence
agency”, working with the connivance of French authorities, according
to Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far right Front National.

In an interview with a virulently anti-Western Russian newspaper, Mr
Le Pen, 86, gave credence to conspiracy theories circulating on the
internet suggesting that the attack was the work of American or Israeli
agents seeking to foment a civil war between Islam and the West.

His
comments – only partially retracted in an interview with the French
newspaper Le Monde today – provoked outrage amongst French politicians.
They will also infuriate Marine Le Pen,
his daughter, and successor as leader of the FN, who has been trying to
distance the party from her father’s extreme and provocative remarks."

and:

"“The shooting at Charlie Hebdo resembles a secret service operation but we have no proof of that,” the newspaper quoted Mr Le Pen as saying. “I don’t think it was organised by the French authorities but they permitted this crime to be committed. That, for the moment, is just a supposition.”

To justify his comments, Mr Le Pen pointed to the fact that one of the Kouachi brothers, who carried out the Charlie Hebdo massacre, left his identity card in a crashed getaway car. He compared this to the “miraculous fact” – beloved by conspiracy theorists – that one of the passports of the 9/11 hijackers was found on the ground in New York after two planes collided with the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in 2001."

Note the last line of the article - "An American conspiracy site, McLatchy, has claimed that the Kouachi brothers were working for French intelligence." - where McClatchy is described as 'an American conspiracy site' (!!!), presumably for having the temerity to mention the obvious connections to French intelligence. Do the people who write for The Independent have any knowledge at all about other big news organizations? Did the missing C throw them off?

"Paris attacks: Jean-Marie Le Pen says French terror attacks were work of Western intelligence":

"The Charlie Hebdo massacre may have been the work of an “intelligence
agency”, working with the connivance of French authorities, according
to Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far right Front National.

In an interview with a virulently anti-Western Russian newspaper, Mr
Le Pen, 86, gave credence to conspiracy theories circulating on the
internet suggesting that the attack was the work of American or Israeli
agents seeking to foment a civil war between Islam and the West.

His
comments – only partially retracted in an interview with the French
newspaper Le Monde today – provoked outrage amongst French politicians.
They will also infuriate Marine Le Pen,
his daughter, and successor as leader of the FN, who has been trying to
distance the party from her father’s extreme and provocative remarks."

and:

"“The shooting at Charlie Hebdo resembles a secret service operation but we have no proof of that,” the newspaper quoted Mr Le Pen as saying. “I don’t think it was organised by the French authorities but they permitted this crime to be committed. That, for the moment, is just a supposition.”

To justify his comments, Mr Le Pen pointed to the fact that one of the Kouachi brothers, who carried out the Charlie Hebdo massacre, left his identity card in a crashed getaway car. He compared this to the “miraculous fact” – beloved by conspiracy theorists – that one of the passports of the 9/11 hijackers was found on the ground in New York after two planes collided with the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in 2001."

Note the last line of the article - "An American conspiracy site, McLatchy, has claimed that the Kouachi brothers were working for French intelligence." - where McClatchy is described as 'an American conspiracy site' (!!!), presumably for having the temerity to mention the obvious connections to French intelligence. Do the people who write for The Independent have any knowledge at all about other big news organizations? Did the missing C throw them off?